On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:20, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Quite, but in the meantime, a good benchmark should stress the system
> > enough to cause crashes, lockups or at least incorrect results if a
> > bug is introduced in the shared memory or semaphore code, and will
> > definitely reveal any slowdowns introduced by new code, so my question
> > is: where can I find a good benchmark for PostgreSQL? Note that I
> > don't care about comparing PostgreSQL to other RDBMSes; I just want to
> > a) test PostgreSQL under high concurrent load and b) if possible,
> > measure the performance impact of a patch.
>
> You can use contrib/pgbench as a rather simplistic test, or you could
> try OSDB (http://osdb.sourceforge.net/)
>
Shouldn't we be getting some of this testing out of the work being done by
Mark Wong and the OSDN folks?
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL